Feb 13, 2019 18:35
5 yrs ago
English term

I would take him at 50 percent

Non-PRO English to Italian Medical General / Conversation / Greetings / Letters morte di un figlio
At the bedside was a wooden table
with drawers, and on
the far side of the room were
dark gray curtains framing windows
overlooking the parking lot. Hari’s mother
was smothering
his face with kisses, talking almost robotically, as her grief
erupted in ever more intense swirls. “No more, no more, my
son is gone! Oh, my father,
my loving son no more!”
A relative sitting on the flower-patterned
couch tried to
comfort her. “He suffer too much, sister,”
she said. “It’s God’s
choice. He will
come back again in a nice body.”
The father
came over and hugged me. He was wearing an
overcoat, though it was spring. “She will
cool down,” he whispered,
referring to his wife. “She seen how he suffered.”
“Oh, my son be punished and punished,” the mother
wailed.
“He said, ‘Mom, I’m dying,
I’m dying,
I can’t
breathe!’ I told
God to leave him, I would take him at 50 percent.
But He
wouldn’t
even give me that.”
There
wasn’t
much I could offer at that moment, so I said
I would come back and exited. The father
followed me out. In
the hallway, he asked me what was next.
The body would be taken to the morgue, I explained. The
funeral home would call to arrange for transportation. He
seemed calm talking about the arrangements. Then his cell
phone rang. He put in the earpiece. “Hello . . . yes, my son no
more.” And, finally, he broke down, too.
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PRO (2): Danila Moro, haribert

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Discussion

haribert Feb 13, 2019:
Budu, ma i personaggi sono di madrelingua inglese? perché mi sembra si esprimano in modo strano..

Proposed translations

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Mi sarei accontentata di averlo a metà

ciao, è una frase strana... forse intende dire che avrebbe voluto tenere con sè il figlio anche se la malattia l'avesse reso incosciente o comunque menomato...

ti propongo questa soluzione perché ho visto qualche occorrenza riferita anche alla religione e forse può servirti da spunto...


La soggettività in Kierkegaard - Pagina 71
Ardian Ndreca - 2005 - ‎Visualizzazione snippet
Ardian Ndreca. Così con la Chiesa, la vera madre, essa vuole piuttosto abbandonare il Singolo, lasciandolo però vivere, che averlo a metà - e spiritualmente è meno impossibile avere uno a metà di quanto lo sia l'averlo corporalmente ".

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Note added at 17 hrs (2019-02-14 12:03:04 GMT)
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Ciao Budu! sono contenta di esserti stata utile! Buon pomeriggio!
Note from asker:
Ottimo suggerimento, grazie! Sono indiani... e l'autore del libro pure. :-)
Peer comment(s):

agree Danila Moro : la tua ipotesi mi pare più sensata della mia...
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Grazie, Danila!! ho cercato di immedesimarmi, ma che tristezza... Buon pomeriggio!
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di dargli il 50% di possibilità (di sopravvivenza)

mah...
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